Here are the answers to your questions: 1. The step pattern of Touch Step is Point, Close. 2. The count pattern of Change Step is 1, and, 2. 3. The dance step with a step pattern of Step, Close is Close Step. 4. The Count pattern of the Change Step with Arms in Lateral Position, L & right alternately is 1, and, 2. 5. The Count Pattern of Change Step, arms in reverse “T” while doing kumintang clockwise is 1, and, 2.

1. BY:
MR. MARTIE EFRAIN P. CATEQUISTA

2. 1.Define folk dance.
2.Identify the basic dance steps in folk dance.
3.Manifest appreciation in folk dance.
4 perform the basic dance steps of folk dance.

3. LET US DO THIS!
STATUE DANCE
QUESTIONS:
1. How do you feel after performing the statue dance?
2. What are the health benefits in dancing?
3. Why is there a need to perform basic steps?

4. FOLK DANCE
• Folk dance, generally, a type of dance that is a vernacular,
usually recreational, expression of a past or present culture.
The term folk dance was accepted until the mid-20th
century.
• Folk dance refers to the dances created and performed
collectively by the ordinary people.

5. • The term usually includes: so called”ethnic dances” such as
those of the cultural commu ity in the Cordillera, in Mindoro,
Palawan, Sulu, and Mindanao; and the rural or lowland Christian
dances, among the groups, like the Ilocano, Pangasinan, Tagalog,
Pampango, Bicol, Cebuano, Ilonggo, and Waray.
• Folk dances may also be divided into the “regional”, which
refers to dances particular to one local or area; and the
“national”, which refers to those performed all over the
country. A related term is “creative folk dance” which refers
to character dances whose choreography uses folk steps and
music.
• Philippine folk dances are diverse, and includes religious,
ceremonial, courtship, funeral, combative, exorcism, torture,
comic, and game dances.

6. Questions:
1.What is Folk Dance?
a type of dance that is a vernacular, usually recreational,
expression of a past or present culture.
refers to the dances created and performed collectively by the
ordinary people.
2. What is the purpose of folk dance in the daily lives of every
Filipino?

7. 1.
Dance Steps Step Pattern Counting Measure
1. Touch Step Point, Close 1,2 8
2. Close Step Step, Close 1, 2 8
3. Change Step Step, Close, Step 1, and, 2 8
4. Change Step
with Arms in
Lateral
Position, L &
right
alternately
Step, Close, Step;
Arms in lateral
position, L and R
alternately
1, and, 2 8
5. Change
Step, arms in
reverse “T”
while doing
kuminrang
clockwise
Step, Close , Step;
Arms in reverse “T”;
turning the hand from
the wrist clockwise
1, and, 2 8

8. 1. How does folk dance exist nowadays?
GENERALIZATION:
1. What is Folk dance?
a type of dance that is a vernacular, usually recreational,
expression of a past or present culture.
refers to the dances created and performed collectively by the
ordinary people.
2. What are the basic steps in folk dance?
Touch step Change Step
Close Step Change Step with Arms in Lateral Position
Change Step, arms in reverse “T” while doing kumintang
clockwise

9. Direction: Answer the following:
1.What is the step pattern of Touch Step?
2.What is the count pattern of Change Step?
3.What dance step has a step pattern of Step, Close?
4. What is the Count pattern of the Change Step with Arms in
Lateral Position, L & right alternately?
5.What is the Count Pattern of Change Step, arms in reverse “T”
while doing kumintang clockwise?